Speech #830181153

This bold new program if of sufficient size and quality can change the political and social climate of the world within a few years. We endorse pending proposals to expand and improve the program. with special emphasis on the need for working under the guidance of the United Nations. * * * We are convinced that the United States should embark now on an international development program on a comprehensive scale. ** We accept as an Integral part of our parity income concept for family farmers a responsibility to assure parity of income to all farmss labor and the acceptance of its democratic right to bargain collectively. * * * 0 We urge immediate steps to require industrial agriculture employers to provide at their own expense to their laborers. domestic and alien all the basic elements in the American way of life. Illegal immigration should be stopped. We urge the establishment of a Federal Commission on Migratory Labor reporting directly to the Prea* dent. * * * Until such time as monopolistic practices are outlawed in business and industry. we are convinced of the moral right of family farmers to obtain and use marketing agreements and orders to help them obtain parity returns for the commodities they produce. A boldly planned integrated transportation system including highways. rail. water. and air on both a regional and nationwide basis should be developed to include individual. corporate. cooperative. and publicly owned facilities of every type. * * 0 0 e We urge revision of freight rates to correct discrimination against Western and Southern development.